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Re: Tie a CVS-aware app into GIT?

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Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date
Aug 12, 2009, 20:30 UTC
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onsdag 12 augusti 2009 20:01:45 skrev david.hagood@gmail.com:
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> I have an application (closed source, unfortunately) that can use CVS to
> manage its files (specifically, Enterprise Architect by Sparx).
> 
> I'd rather use GIT to manage the files, but EA doesn't "speak" git - just
> CVS and Subversion (and Microsoft's SCC protocol, but...)
> 
> Are there any programs which
> 1) accept the same command line parameters as CVS or Subversion
> and
> 2) access a GIT repository.
> 
> git-svn is almost exactly NOT what I need, as it accepts "git" type
> command line parameters and access a SVN repo, rather than accepting SVN
> command line parameters and accessing a GIT repo.
> 
> Now, obviously, such a tool wouldn't have access to all the things that
> GIT can do, and that is NOT what I am expecting - what I want is just to
> enable EA to do the things it needs to do, namely adding/removing/moving
> files from a repo. Branching, commits, and so on can be done manually.
> 
> I've thought about git-cvsserver as a solution, but I don't know if it can
> be run on a local machine to access a local repository.
What makes you there would be an issue here?
-- robin
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